Can you recover from a hidden recovery partition?
From this page:
HP Notebook PCs- Using the PC Recovery Solution
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NOTE: You may also access HP Recovery Manager at any time by restarting the computer and pressing F11 repeatedly before the Windows load screen appears.
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This is (basically) how my ASUS notebook can be taken back to "factory settings", though they also provided a CD with this same content.
Hope that helps.